Wow wendy, that's the most outlandish reaction to my sentence that I could have expected. Mind reading and traitor accusations are nowhere in my sentence - your imagination has to be fertile indeed to reach those conclusions.
But at the risk that others may utterly misinterpret my comment, I will restate so as to clarify....
Gen. P is very politically astute. His writings on quelling insurgencies are studied at military academies and are very logical and dispassionate. As such, they are anathema to the cheney administration's approach. So he played the game in order to get the chance to implement his strategies, to some reasonable degree of success. General P is as aware as anyone of the impact from 'news' at home on activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Therefore, he would understand the significance of our nation considering electing a military man who 'worked' in the Middle East on a ticket that would champion 'crushing terrorists,' hunt "islamo-fascists," etc. General P would have to confront that rabid element of our society that is the RNC and demand that they refrain from that sort of campaign message. He will find it easier working with militant Arabs than white maile xenophobes. He may get his way with the RNC, but if not, there can be no rational person believing that it would have no effect on terrorist recruiting.
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